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Thursday (9/13)
7:30 - 9:00 PM Opening
Session
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| 7:30 |
Dr. C. Mannella (Albany Conference
Fdn.)
Welcome |
| 7:40 |
Dr. R. Bessette (NYSTAR)
Discovery Drives Progress:
NYS' Biotech Future |
| 8:00 |
Dr. D. Dean (NIBIB/NIH)
Partnering for Research Opportunities
in the 21st Century: A Perspective from NIH's Newest Institute |
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Friday (9/14) Bioengineering
Day
9:00 - 11:45 AM
Tissue Engineering Session
Chairs: Robert Spilker
(RPI) and Harold Singer (AMC)
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| 9:00 |
Dennis Metzger (AMC)
Extracellular Matrix as a Xenogeneic
Scaffold for Tissue Remodeling |
| 9:25 |
Robert Spilker (RPI
Functional Tissue Engineering:
The Role of Computational Modeling and Simulation |
| 9:50 |
Victor Rizzo (AMC)
Mechanical Forces are Transduced
into Biochemical Signals within Microdomains of the Plasma Membrane |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Deepak Vashishth (RPI)
Mechanobiology of Aging Bone:
Strategies for Tissue Repair and Regeneration |
| 10:55 |
Livingston Van De Water (AMC)
Extracellular Matrix Protein
Function During Wound Healing |
| 11:20 |
Rena Bizios (RPI)
Strategies For Bone Tissue Engineering:
Novel Material Formulations And Select Biophysical Stimuli |
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1:30 - 4:30 PM
Nanobiotechnology Session
Chairs: James Turner (WC)
and James Castracane (UA)
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| 1:30 |
Dr. H. Craighead (Cornell)
NanoBioTechnology: Interfacing
Nanotechnology and Biology |
| 2:20 |
James Turner (WC)
The Cell Biology Nanotechnology
Interface |
| 2:40 |
Bill Shain (WC)
Brain Replacement Parts through
Nanotechnology |
| 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:20 |
James Castracane (UA)
NanoBioTech Research at the
University at Albany Institute for Materials:Component Development and
System Integration |
| 3:50 |
Bai Xu (UA)
Design and Fabrication of a
Low-Power, Low-Voltage Microvalve for Biomedical Applications |
| 4:10 |
Ravi Kane (RPI)
Biomimetic Approaches To Drug
Design: The Design Of Polyvalent Nanoscale Antagonists |
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7:30-9:30 PM Bioseparations
and Molecular Engineering Session
Chairs: Georges Belfort (RPI)
and Vicky Derbyshire (WC)
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| 7:30 |
Georges Belfort (RPI)
Molecular Separations, a Core
Technology for Genomics and Proteomics |
| 8:00 |
Steven Cramer (RPI)
Bioseparations Research at RPI |
| 8:30 |
Susan Sharfstein (RPI)
The Role of Cell Culture Environment
on Recombinant Protein Glycosylation |
| 8:50 |
Victoria Derbyshire (WC)
Applications of Inteins in Protein
Purification |
| 9:10 |
Shekhar Garde (RPI)
Molecular Modeling of Biomolecules
and their Interactions |
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Saturday (9/15) Imaging
Day
9:00-11:50 AM Medical Imaging Session
Chairs: John Schenck (GE CR&D)
and David Isaacson (RPI)
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| 9:00 |
Dr. K. Thulborn (Univ. Illinois/Chicago)
Functional Brain Imaging in
the Clinic: A Test of Technology |
| 9:45 |
Break |
| 10:00 |
A. Nadeem Ishaque (GE CR&D)
Molecular Imaging |
| 10:20 |
David Isaacson (RPI)
Electrical Impedance Imaging |
| 10:40 |
William Lorensen (GE CR&D)
Three-dimensional Medical Segmentation
and Registration |
| 11:10 |
Stephen Romero (Union Coll)
Investigating Cognitive Neuroplasticity
in Single Cases and Patient Groups |
| 11:30 |
Egidijus Uzgiris (GE CR&D)
New Contrast Agents for Magnetic
Resonance Imaging |
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1:30-4:40 PM
Cell and Tissue Imaging Session
Chairs: Colin Izzard (UA) and
James Turner (WC)
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| 1:30 |
Peter So (MIT)
Tissue and Cell Imaging Using
Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy |
| 2:20 |
Colin Izzard (UA)
The University at Albany Confocal
Laser Scanning Microscope Facility: Present and Future Plans |
| 2:35 |
Alexey Khodjakov (WC)
Exploring Centrosome Functions
Using GFP-Imaging and Laser Microsurgery |
| 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:20 |
Badrinath Roysam (RPI)
Multi-Dimensional Quantitative
Image Analysis Tools for Biological Microscopy |
| 3:40 |
Frank Rice (AMC)
Sensory, Motor and Trophic Interactions
Between Peripheral Innervation and Non-Neural Tissues |
| 4:00 |
Concetta DiRusso (AMC)
Imaging Fatty Acid Transport
in Living Cells |
| 4:20 |
Michelle Lennartz (AMC)
Imaging PKC in Living Cells |
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7:30-9:30 PM
Molecular Structure Session
Chairs: Carmen Mannella (WC)
and Patrick Van Roey (WC)
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| 7:30 |
Dr. J. Frank (HHMI)
The Ribosome – A Molecular Machine
in Motion |
| 8:10 |
Raj Agrawal (WC)
Three-Dimensional Cryo-Electron
Microscopic Study of Dynamics of Elongation Factor-G and Ribosome During
Translocation |
| 8:30 |
Patrick Van Roey (WC)
Intermolecular Interactions
at Atomic Resolution: X-Ray Crystallography |
| 8:50 |
Curt Breneman (RPI)
Features of Conformation-sensitive
TAE Descriptors for Protein Modeling |
| 9:10 |
David LeMaster (WC)
Oligosaccharide NMR Structural
Analysis Utilizing 3D Long Range 1H-13C
Spin Coupling |
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Sunday (9/16) Connecting
9:30 AM -12:00 PM Discussion
of Collaborations
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